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RUTH KRAMER

Department of Linguistics Fall 2018 Georgetown University rtk8@georgetown.edu Washington, DC 20057

EMPLOYMENT

2015- Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University 2012- Associate Director for Afroasiatic Languages, The Afranaph Project (PI: Ken

Safir), Rutgers University. 2011- Adjunct Researcher, Center for the Advanced Study of Language, University

of Maryland, College Park. 2009- Affiliate, Program in Cognitive Science, Georgetown University 2016 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, New York

University 2015 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of

Chicago 2009-2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University

EDUCATION 2003-2009 University of California, Santa Cruz

Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2009 Dissertation: Definite Markers, Phi Features and Agreement: A Morphosyntactic

Investigation of the Amharic DP Committee: Sandra Chung, Jorge Hankamer (co-chairs), James McCloskey

2007 Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Intensive course in Elementary Amharic.

1999-2003 Brown University, B.A. in Linguistics (Honors) and Egyptology Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa Thesis: (Virtual) Relative Clauses in Middle Egyptian

Advisors: Pauline Jacobson and Leo Depuydt

PUBLICATIONS MONOGRAPH AND EDITED VOLUMES Ostrove, Jason, Ruth Kramer and Joseph Sabbagh, eds. 2017. Asking the Right Question: Essays in

Honor of Sandra Chung. Santa Cruz, CA: Linguistics Research Center. Kramer, Ruth. 2015. The Morphosyntax of Gender. Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 58.

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Kramer, Ruth, Elizabeth Zsiga and One Boyer, eds. 2015. Selected Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of African Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Zsiga, Elizabeth C., One Boyer and Ruth Kramer, eds. 2015. Languages in Africa: Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES Baker, Mark and Ruth Kramer. 2018. Doubled clitics are pronouns: Amharic objects (and beyond).

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-018-9401-8 Kramer, Ruth. 2016. The location of gender features in syntax. Language and Linguistics Compass 10.

661-677. Kramer, Ruth. 2016. A split analysis of plurality: number in Amharic. Linguistic Inquiry 47. 527-559. Baker, Mark and Ruth Kramer. 2014. Rethinking Amharic prepositions as case markers inserted at

PF. Lingua 145. 141-172. Kramer, Ruth. 2014. Clitic doubling or object agreement: the view from Amharic. Natural Language

and Linguistic Theory 32. 593-634. Kramer, Ruth. 2014. Gender in Amharic: A morphosyntactic approach to natural and grammatical

gender. Language Sciences 43. 102-115. Kramer, Ruth. 2013. The position of numerals in Middle Egyptian: Evidence from universals of

word order. Lingua Aegyptia 21. 131-137. Kramer, Ruth and Aviad Eilam. 2012. Verb-medial word orders in Amharic. Journal of Afroasiatic

Languages 5. 75-104. Kramer, Ruth. 2010. The Amharic definite marker and the syntax-morphology interface. Syntax 13.

196-240. REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS AND PROCEEDINGS PAPERS Kramer, Ruth. To appear. A novel kind of gender syncretism. In Gender and Noun Classification, eds.

Éric Mathieu, Myriam Dali, and Gita Zareikar. Oxford: OUP. Kramer, Ruth. 2017. General number nouns in Amharic lack NumP. In Asking the Right Question:

Essays in Honor of Sandra Chung, eds. Jason Ostrove, Ruth Kramer, and Joseph Sabbagh. Santa Cruz: Linguistics Research Center. 39-54.

Kramer, Ruth. 2016. Syncretism in Paradigm Function Morphology and Distributed Morphology. In Morphological Metatheory, eds. Daniel Siddiqi and Heidi Harley. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 95-120.

LaTerza, Christopher, Morgan Rood, Dustin Chacón, Ruth Kramer, Jen Johnson. 2015. New puzzles for shifting indexicals: an Amharic case study. In Selected Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 44), eds. Ruth Kramer, Elizabeth Zsiga and One Boyer. 158-164. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Kramer, Ruth. 2012. Differentiating agreement and doubled clitics: object markers in Amharic. In Selected Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 41), eds. Bruce Connell and Nicholas Rolle. 60-70. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Kramer, Ruth. 2011. Object markers are doubled clitics in Amharic. In Morphology at Santa Cruz: Papers in Honor of Jorge Hankamer, eds. Nicholas LaCara, Anie Thompson and Matthew A. Tucker. 41-54. Santa Cruz: Linguistics Research Center.

Kramer, Ruth. 2009. VSO and SVO word order in Middle Egyptian. In Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron: Proceedings of the 35th Annual North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, ed. Charles G. Häberl. 31-75. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Kramer, Ruth. 2007. Nonconcatenative morphology in Coptic. In Phonology at Santa Cruz 7, eds. David Teeple and Aaron Kaplan. http://repositories.cdlib.org/lrc/pasc/2007

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OTHER BOOK CHAPTERS AND PROCEEDINGS PAPERS Kramer, Ruth and Lindley Winchester. 2018. Number and gender agreement in Saudi Arabic:

morphology vs. syntax. In The Proceedings of the 17th Texas Linguistic Society, eds. Frances Cooley et al. 39-53. http://tls.ling.utexas.edu/2017tls/TLS17_Conference_Proceedings.pdf

Zsiga, Elizabeth, One Boyer and Ruth Kramer. 2015. Layers of language: some bad news and some good news about multilingualism in Africa. In Languages in Africa: Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education in Africa, eds. Elizabeth Zsiga, One Boyer and Ruth Kramer. 1-11. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

Kramer, Ruth, David Lightfoot and Ralph Fasold. 2014. The structure of sentences. In An Introduction to Language and Linguistics, eds. Ralph W. Fasold and Jeff Connor-Linton. 2nd edition. 105-148. Cambridge: CUP.

LaTerza, Christopher, Ruth Kramer, Morgan Rood, Dustin Chacón, Jen Johnson. 2014. Plural shifted indexicals are plural: evidence from Amharic. In The Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 44), eds. Jyoti Iyer & Leland Kusmer. 259-269. Amherst: GLSA.

Kramer, Ruth. 2012. A split analysis of plurality: evidence from Amharic. In The Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 30 (WCCFL 30), eds. Nathan Arnett and Ryan Bennett. 226-236. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Kramer, Ruth. 2012. Egyptian. In Semitic and Afroasiatic: Challenges and Opportunities, ed. Lutz Edzard. Porta Linguarum Orientalium 24. 59-130. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Kramer, Ruth and Kyle Rawlins. 2011. Polarity particles: an ellipsis account. In The Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 39), eds. Suzi Lima, Kevin Mullin, Brian Smith. Volume 1. 479-492. Amherst: GLSA.

Kramer, Ruth. 2008. Virtual relative clauses in Middle Egyptian. In The Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 40). eds. Nikki Adams et al. Volume 2. 135-149. Chicago: CLS.

Kramer, Ruth. 2006. Root and pattern morphology in Coptic: Evidence for the root. In The Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 36), eds. Christopher Davis, Amy Rose Deal and Youri Zabbal. 399-412. Amherst: GLSA.

PRESENTATIONS INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2018 New gender, new number: the view from Afroasiatic. Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Gender. Berlin, Germany (ZAS). 2018 Switching grammatical gender in the plural: three Afroasiatic case studies. Colloquium, University of Minnesota. Georgetown Workshop on Morphosyntax, Washington, DC. 2017 Number and gender agreement in Saudi Arabic: morphology vs. syntax. (authors: Ruth

Kramer, Lindley Winchester) Texas Linguistic Society 17, Austin, TX. 2017 Syncretism or syntax? Markedness, number, and gender in Saudi Arabic. (authors: Ruth

Kramer, Lindley Winchester) Workshop on Markedness: Perspectives in Morphology and Phonology. Goethe

University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.

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2017 Number features on n and a: evidence from Afroasiatic. Colloquium, University of Connecticut. 2016 Where can plural features be? A cross-linguistic and cross-categorial investigation of the

syntax of number. Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley. Colloquium, Rutgers University. 2016 General number nouns in Amharic lack a NumP and some reflections on fieldwork on

Amharic. Fieldwork Forum, University of California, Berkeley. 2016 The syntax of plurality: Num, n and a. Colloquium, University of Quebec at Montreal. 2016 The syntax of plurality: typology, predictions, and Afroasiatic case studies. Colloquium, Leipzig University. 2015 The interaction of gender and number: evidence from syncretism and gender switch. Workshop on Gender, Class, and Determination. Ottawa, Canada. 2015 Impoverishment, gender, and number: predicting the patterns of syncretism.

Workshop on Roots IV. New York, NY. 2015 The morphosyntax of gender and number: the view from Distributed Morphology.

Plenary, Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference 4. Cambridge, UK. 2015 The morphosyntax of gender and number: morpho or syntax?

Mayfest 2015: Morphest. College Park, MD. 2015 The morphosyntax of gender and number: converging and crossing.

Colloquium, Harvard University. Colloquium, University of Chicago.

2014 The morphosyntactic interaction of number and gender: a cross-linguistic perspective. Workshop on Allomorphy: Its Logic and Limitations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2014 The morphology and syntax of gender: a little n approach. Plenary, 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Lawrence, KS. 2014 A new approach to the morphosyntax of gender.

Distinguished Alumna Lecture, Linguistics at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA. Colloquium, University of Rochester.

2013 Gender as nominalizer: evidence from Amharic and Somali. Colloquium, University of Delaware.

2013 Clitic doubling vs. object agreement: the view from Amharic and beyond. Colloquium, Pomona College. 2012 The morphosyntax of gender.

Syntax/semantics reading group, New York University. 2012 What is the difference between clitic doubling and object agreement? An Amharic case

study. Colloquium, University of Maryland.

2012 An ellipsis approach to answer particles in positive and negative contexts (authors: Ruth Kramer, Kyle Rawlins). Workshop on Answers to Polar Questions, Newcastle University, UK.

2011-12 The morphosyntax of gender in Amharic. Colloquium, Yale University and ST@R reading group, Rutgers University.

2011 Clitic doubling or object agreement: an Amharic investigation. Colloquium, Harvard University.

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2010 Polarity particles and ellipsis: a cross-linguistic account (authors: Ruth Kramer, Kyle Rawlins).

Polarity Particles Workshop, University of California, Santa Cruz. 2010 The morphosyntax of number in Amharic: evidence for a split analysis. Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania. 2009 Definite markers in Amharic and the syntax-morphology connection. Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University. PUBLIC TALKS 2017 Researching and teaching Ancient Egyptian. Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Colloquium. Georgetown University. 2016 Masculine, feminine, neuter, vegetable: grammatical gender around the world. Christina Kakava Linguistics Speaker Series. University of Mary Washington. INVITED DISCUSSANT/DISCUSSION LEADER 2013 Discussant at the Forum on Distributed Morphology at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America 2013. Boston, MA. 2011 Discussion leader at the Workshop on the Languages and Cultures of Africa for the

Intelligence Community. Center for the Advanced Study of Language, College Park, MD.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2018 The interaction of discontinuous agreement with auxiliaries in Amharic: a Distributed

Morphology Approach. 46th North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics. Long Beach, CA.

2018 Gender polarity in Sidaama. 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Lansing, MI. (authors: Ruth Kramer, Anbessa Teferra)

2018 Agreement with plural nouns in Saudi Arabic: distinguishing between syntactic and morphological explanations (authors: Ruth Kramer, Lindley Winchester).

Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Salt Lake City, UT. 2016 The syntax of number: three Afroasiatic case studies. 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Berkeley, CA. 2016 General number nouns in Amharic lack Number Phrase. 44th North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics. Austin, TX. 2015 General number nouns in Amharic. 8th World Conference on African Linguistics. Kyoto, Japan. 2015 The interaction of gender and number: the view from Afroasiatic. 43rd North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics. Washington, DC. 2014 Applicative markers as agreement with PP in Amharic. (authors: Mark Baker, Ruth

Kramer). 45th Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society. Cambridge, MA. 2014 A new approach to clitic doubling in Basque. (authors: Laura Siebecker, Ruth Kramer) Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. 2013-14 Plural shifted indexicals are plural: evidence from Amharic. (authors: Chris LaTerza,

Morgan Rood, Ruth Kramer, Dustin Chacón, JJ Johnson) 44th Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society. Storrs, CT. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Minneapolis, MN.

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2013 The morphosyntax of applicative markers in Amharic. (authors: Mark Baker, Ruth Kramer)

Afranaph Project Development Workshop II. New Brunswick, NJ. 2013 Distinguishing theories of shifted indexicals. (authors: Dustin Chacón, JJ Johnson, Ruth

Kramer, Chris LaTerza, and Morgan Rood) Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2013 / 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Washington, DC.

2013 Applicative verbs in Amharic. (authors: Ruth Kramer, Mark Baker) North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics 41. New Haven, CT

2012 A split analysis of plurality: evidence from Amharic. 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Santa Cruz, CA. 2012 No competition: the morphosyntax of plurality in Amharic. 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. New Orleans, LA. 2012 The morphosyntax of natural gender: evidence from Amharic. 15th International Morphology Meeting. Vienna, Austria. 2012 Verb-medial word orders in Amharic. (authors: Ruth Kramer, Aviad Eilam) Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Portland, OR. 2011 Prepositions or case markers? An Amharic case study. (authors: Ruth Kramer, Mark

Baker) 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. College Park, MD. 2010 “Prepositions” as case markers inserted at PF in Amharic. (authors: Ruth Kramer, Mark

Baker) Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics 5: Case at the Interface. Brussels,

Belgium. 2010 Object markers in Amharic.

41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Toronto, Canada. 2009 Numeral syntax and word order universals in Middle Egyptian. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, CA. North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics 36. Albuquerque, NM. 2008 Polarity particles: an ellipsis account. (authors: Ruth Kramer, Kyle Rawlins)

North Eastern Linguistic Society 39. Ithaca, NY. 2007-08 The Amharic definite marker and the syntax-PF interface. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Chicago, IL. Workshop on Theoretical Morphology 3. Leipzig, Germany. 2007 VSO and SVO Word Order in Middle Egyptian. North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics 35. San Antonio, TX. 2006 Pronominal clitics and pronominal affixes in Middle Egyptian. North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics 34. Seattle, WA. 2005 Root and pattern morphology in Coptic. North Eastern Linguistic Society 36. Amherst, MA. 2005 A typology of wh-questions in Middle Egyptian. North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics 33. Philadelphia, PA. 2004 Middle Egyptian virtual relative clauses. Chicago Linguistic Society 40. Chicago, Illinois. North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics 32. San Diego, CA.

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CONFERENCE, SYMPOSIUM, OR PANEL ORGANIZER 2018 Organizer of the Georgetown Workshop on Morphosyntax. Washington, DC. 2015 Co-organizer of the 43rd North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics.

Washington, DC. (with Michal Marmorstein and Morgan Rood) 2013 Co-organizer of the joint meeting of the Georgetown University Round Table on

Languages and Linguistics 2013 and the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Washington, DC. (with Elizabeth Zsiga and One Boyer)

2012 Co-organizer of a symposium at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. (with Aviad Eilam) Title: An Introduction to the Ethiosemitic Languages:

Data and Theory. 2010 Organized panel at Georgetown Linguistic Society Annual Meeting 2010 on causatives and the syntax-morphology interface.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

REVIEWING Journals: Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Language, Lingua, Glossa, Morphology, Linguistic Variation, Journal of Linguistics, The Linguistic Review, Language Sciences, Studia Linguistica, Folia Linguistica, Linguistic Discovery, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, STUF/Language Typology and Universals Edited volumes: Oxford Handbook of Determiners, Gender and Noun Classification, Asking the Right Question, Selected Proceedings of the 42nd, 44th, and 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, The Form of Structure/The Structure of Form, Morphology at Santa Cruz, Phonology at Santa Cruz Conferences: CGG 28, Roots 5, GLOW 40, NELS 45, GURT 2013/ACAL 44, WCCFL 30, ACAL 42, GURT 2010, FAMLi 2010, AFLA 2009, Other: National Science Foundation, Israel Science Foundation, MIT Press (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs), Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, Leverhulme Trust EDITORIAL BOARD SERVICE AND MISCELLANEOUS 2018- Founding Member, Board of Directors, The Afranaph Project (PI: Ken Safir), Rutgers

University. 2018- Member, Editorial Board, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 2015- Member, Editorial Board, Language and Linguistics Compass. 2009- Co-founder, Special Interest Group (SIG) in Ethiosemitic Linguistics associated with the Linguistic Society of America. 2009, 2010 National Science Foundation Panelist. Reviewed applications for an NSF- administered fellowship.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

2018 Georgetown Academic Council Faculty Teaching Award. Annual teaching award determined by undergraduate student vote.

2018 Nominated by graduate students for a Graduate Mentorship Award. 2018 CNDLS Curriculum Enrichment Grant. Award to support curricular enrichment

activites related to LING 470 Intermediate Ancient Egyptian. 2016-18 Faculty Success Fellowship, Georgetown University/National Science Foundation.

Funding to support the professional development of women in STEM fields. 2014, 15, 17 Nominated by undergraduates for Georgetown Academic Council Faculty

teaching award 2016 Summer Academic Grant, Georgetown University. Project Title: ‘One Book or

More than One Book?: Investigating Grammatical Number in Amharic.’ 2015 International Travel Grant, Georgetown University. Special funding to support

travel to the 8th World Conference on African Linguistics in Kyoto, Japan. 2014 Summer Academic Grant, Georgetown University. Project Title: ‘Opening a Door

for Someone in Amharic: Investigating an Unusual Verbal Construction’ 2013-14, 2011 Noncompetitive Grant-in-Aid. Reimbursed for costs of Amharic consultants and

publication charges. 2013 Nominated by graduate students for a Graduate Faculty Mentorship Award. 2012 Summer Academic Grant. Continuing support for project begun under Junior

Faculty Research Fellowship. 2012 Junior Faculty Research Fellowship. Project Title: ‘Number and Gender in

Amharic: A Linguistic Analysis.’ 2010 Summer Academic Grant. Project Title: ‘Working with a Dead Language: The Grammar of Numerals in Ancient Egyptian.’ 2004-2009 Travel and Research Grants (ten total). From the Graduate Student Association, the

Linguistics Department, and the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz

2003-2008 Humanities Predoctoral Fellowship. First-year and fifth-year merit-based graduate student support from the University of California, Santa Cruz

2007 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. Funding from the US Department of Education for summer study of Amharic

2003 Class of 1873 Prize for outstanding academic work in cognitive science. Brown University.

SERVICE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY 2013-15, 18- Member, Georgetown College Executive Committee. 2016- Member, Graduate Research Steering Committee. 2016- Member, Amharic Interest Group, Georgetown University. 2010-12, 17 Member, Fulbright Interview Committee. Interviewed candidates who wish to travel

to sub-Saharan Africa.

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2013-2014 Chair, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Summer Grant Committee. 2012-2013 Member, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Summer Grant Committee. 2011-2013 Linguistics Department Representative, Main Campus Executive Faculty. 2011, 2012 Mentor, Marino Family International Writers’ Academic Workshop. Led discussion

of assigned summer reading with first-year students. DEPARTMENT 2018- Director of Undergraduate Studies. 2017- Member of Linguistics Department Social Media Committee. 2017- Advisor, Afroasiatic Reading Group. 2012- Advisor, Morphology Reading Group. 2018 Chair, Search Committee for Visiting Assistant Professor in Syntax. 2016-2018 Head, Theoretical Linguistics Concentration. 2016-2017 Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Phonology. 2014 Head, Theoretical Linguistics Concentration. 2013-2014 Advisor, Georgetown University Working Papers on Theoretical Linguistics. 2012-2014 Member, Linguistics Department Merit Review Committee. 2013 Consultant, Linguistics 001 teaching development grant. 2013 Member, Search Committee for Visiting Assistant Professor in Phonology. 2011-2013 Member, Linguistics Department Art Committee. 2010-2011 Member, Linguistics Department Relocation Committee.

TEACHING AND ADVISING COURSES TAUGHT Spring 2018 Intermediate Ancient Egyptian (grad/undergrad) Morphology (grad/undergrad) Fall 2017 Syntax III (graduate) Grammatical Analysis (undergraduate) Tutorial on Minimalist syntax (graduate) Spring 2017 Ancient Egyptian (grad/undergrad) Seminar on Concord (graduate) Fall 2016 Syntax I (graduate) Grammatical Analysis (undergraduate) Tutorial on Semitic Morphosyntax (graduate) Spring 2016 At NYU: Morphology (undergraduate) Seminar on the Syntax of Number (graduate) Summer 2015 At University of Chicago: Seminar on the Syntax of Agreement (graduate)

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Spring 2015 Grammatical Analysis (undergraduate) Undergraduate Senior Honors Thesis Seminar, Part 2 Fall 2014 Syntax I (graduate)

Undergraduate Senior Honors Thesis Seminar, Part 1

Spring 2014 Grammatical Analysis (undergraduate) Seminar on Distributed Morphology (graduate)

Tutorial on Syntax (graduate) Guest lecture at George Mason University, “A new approach to gender,”

Linguistics 882: Seminar in Language Acquisition: Noun Classification Systems (graduate, Prof. Jennifer Culbertson)

Fall 2013 Syntax III (graduate) Spring 2013 Grammatical Analysis (undergraduate) Undergraduate/Master’s Thesis Seminar Tutorial on Syntax (undergraduate) Fall 2012 The Structure of Semitic Languages (graduate/undergraduate, co-taught with

Aynat Rubinstein) Syntax I (graduate) Fall 2011 Syntax III (graduate) Grammatical Analysis (undergraduate, co-taught with Donna Lardiere) Spring 2011 Syntax (undergraduate) Seminar on Topics in Morphosyntax (focusing on Case/case, graduate) Fall 2010 Syntax III (graduate) Morphology (graduate, co-taught with Donna Lardiere) Tutorial on Phi-Syntax (graduate) Spring 2010 Syntax (undergraduate) Seminar on Nominal Phrase Syntax (graduate) Fall 2009 Syntax III (graduate) PH.D. DISSERTATIONS AND MASTER’S THESES ADVISING Chair or Co-Chair: in progress Lindley Winchester, The Morphosyntax of the Maltese DP in progress Lucia Donatelli, Gender, Reference and the (Small) Spanish Nominal (Co-Chair) 2017 Morgan Rood, The Morphosyntax of Pronominal Possessors and Diminutives in Mehri 2017 Brett Sutton. Parallel Architecture, Parallel Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Evidence from

Nominal and Verbal Domains (Co-Chair) 2017 Katherine Vadella. The Morphosyntax of Gender and Word Class in Spanish (Co-Chair)

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2015 Laura Siebecker. The Basque Auxiliary Verb: Morphosyntactic Analysis and Implications for Second Language Acquisition

2014 Ava Irani. Focusing in Hindi Syntax (Master’s Thesis) Committee Member: in progress Akitaka Yamada, TBD in progress Luke Adamson, TBD (University of Pennsylvania) in progress Maria Kouneli, TBD (New York University) 2018 Heidi Getz, Sentence First, Arguments After: Mechanisms of Morphosyntax Acquisition

2018 Jason Ostrove. When ϕ-agreement Targets Topics: The View from San Martín Peras Mixtec (University of California, Santa Cruz)

2017 Kathryn Schuler. The Acquisition of Productive Rules in Child and Adult Language Learners 2015 Eunji Lee. L2 Acquisition of Number Marking: A Bidirectional Study of Adult Learners of

Korean and Indonesian 2014 Mulusew Asratie. The Syntax of Non-Verbal Predication in Amharic and Geez (Utrecht

University) 2013 Corinne Hutchinson. Morphosyntactic Echoes: Language Contact Phenomena in Navajo Child

English 2013 Keffyalew Gebregziabher. Projecting Possessors: A Morphosyntactic Investigation of Tigrinya

Nominal Possession (University of Calgary) 2013 Justin Kelly. The Syntax-Semantics Interface in Distributed Morphology 2012 Sun Hee Hwang. The Acquisition of Korean Plural Marking in Native English Speakers 2010 Michael Diercks. Agreement with Subjects in Lubukusu ORAL EXAMINATION COMMITTEE MEMBER 2017 Lindley Winchester (chair of committee) 2017 Lucia Donatelli (Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese) 2017 Jason Ostrove (University of California, Santa Cruz; external member) 2015 Katherine Vadella (Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese) 2015 Morgan Rood (chair of committee) 2015 Brett Sutton (chair of committee) 2014 Ariel Zach (Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese) 2013 Laura Siebecker (co-chair of committee) 2012 Eunji Lee 2011 Sun Hee Hwang 2010 Corinne Hutchinson UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ADVISING 2018 Senior thesis advisor, Toby Hung. Thesis title: A Cartographic Analysis of the Left

Periphery in Chaozhou, Cantonese and Mandarin. 2016 Raines Fellowship faculty advisor, Toby Hung. Project title: “Documenting the

morphosyntax of agreement in Bantu.” 2015 Senior thesis advisor, Lauren McGarry. Thesis title: Concord in East Slavic Numerical

Constructions: A Cross-Linguistic Assessment of Pesetsky 2013.

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LANGUAGES English (native) Amharic (intermediate reading and writing, basic speaking) Ancient Egyptian (Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian, Demotic, Coptic) French (advanced reading, low intermediate speaking) German (reading) Classical Greek